#ScribesAndMakers #ttmd @johnyNocash I'm really partial to storytelling in music. Which bands or artists do you really feel capture the zeitgeist now? Why? Asks our correspondent @youseeatortoise
It’s a tough question… I’m not really that well up on the now music, largely because to my ears it all sounds so generic. I thought it was maybe just my age, but the singer from The 1975 did a really good analysis of musical trends and defining features across decades. If you listened to a song from the 60s, you could place it quite easily, for example. Listen to a song from 2011 and it could be from anywhere between 2005 and now.
I mentioned Half Man Half Biscuit in another answer, but they have continually captured the zeitgeist with their social commentary.
Back in 1995 they had:
“when I had my loft converted
back into a loft”…
Their most recent album has this to say about Record Store Day:
“Step this way, it’s Record Store Day
The bands are clearing out their spare rooms
If you want that in battleship grey
You’ll have to sell the family heirlooms
Extortion on a level you can hardly conceive
Tarted up in a fibreglass sleeve
That acoustic thing which nobody bought…”
They rarely miss a target!
We made a mistake with the date for the first 
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